Hell, I'm 46 and it's really hard to not be cynical these days. I want to believe there's still good people out there but I run into so many assholes.
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I'm also 40 something. Oh for the dizzy optimism of the 90s...
I will forever seethe that I missed out on the 1990s, especially considering how IT was a money printer back then & the rave scene was top notch. I just about caught the tail end of the old internet as well, even that has gone to complete corporate dogshit.
And owning a house wasnt a Pipedream : (
Ah the rave scene really was amazing. Have you seen the tiktok videos? The music and feeling will stay with me forever
Don't use tiktok lol, I've seen a few old clips passed around on forums and stuff uploaded to youtube though, shit looked great. Meanwhile the smallest rave gets shut down pretty quickly by the police these days : ( also pretty envious of pints being far more affordable back then, I barely even go to spoons as a student as it just costs way too fuckin much. I guess one upside of the modern day though is party drugs being cheap, pure and plentiful but that can obviously also have significant drawbacks.
I joined and deleted tiktok just to download the videos! I'm properly old now I swear everything was just better back then
Thats the way to use it lol, and I hear that a lot : ( most annoying this is we should be able to have a world where no one wants for anything anymore but alas no line must perpetually go up.
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I am over 60 and I can plainly see everything it fucked.
I'm quickly catching up to your age and I don't really understand either why it would be a young people thing either. (not that I'm not still young of course, my white hair are just an affectation)
It's just a matter of looking around.
Welcome to the age of the smartphone, where we're more informed while being more misinformed and where we're all connected but can't actually connect. We've hit the point where people can watch something, stare the truth in the eye and say "that's a lie" or be told an obvious lie that could be disproved in less than a minute and say "that's so true."
There's no easy way out of the hole now either. If the government stepped in, the people spreading lies would simply lie and say the government was misleading people and people would gobble it up, and there's no way I'd trust anything privately owned to tell me the truth.
Half a century here, I've never had a time in my life where the next year was better than the last
I'm glad to see folks talking on here. Makes me feel better knowing we're here all going through it. Gives me that Band of Brothers vibe "We stand alone, together."
Everyone over 40: "Yup, social media has really fucked those kids' brains up"
Whereas the reality is that things are so fucked because these idiots get their news from Facebook. The Trump administration admitted to making a mistake deporting Kilmer Garcia - they’ll never find out because they’re too busy sharing OAN articles about that trans women they bullied out of fencing.
I am well over 40 and I agree with OP. Then again, I didn't give up my empathy at the door to adulthood.
I have seen so many 50+ year olds that waste several hours a day doomscrolling Facebook say this unironically.
Social media was a mistake. User age has nothing to do with it.
Judging by the typical Facebookfeed, I’d strongly argue the opposite.
At this point we have to contend with small wins like Die Linke getting almost 10% of the vote in Germany, Elon Musk getting bullied out of politics, and Carney winning in Canada.
I won't contend with small wins anymore. I want it all, heaven or hell
PEACE JUSTICE AND ANARCHY
Dutton getting his arse absolutely handed to him in Australia, ditto palmer
Die Linke (Formel SPD) used to be close to a majority in our parents time.
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I wouldn’t be gentle. But then again both my parents are dead so I don’t actually have anyone to be bitter at.
I think they've got it the wrong way around. The under 40s have a chance of rebuilding after the war. Yes, there are hard times ahead but they are young enough to come out on the other side.
At 49, I'm quite sure I either won't make it through the coming storm at all or at least won't be able to enjoy the aftermath for long once things get better again.
The under 40s will be sent to die at the front
The under 40s are going to be the ones fighting the wars, as always. Even if there is an other side for humanity after what's coming, no one alive today will ever have a peaceful life ever again.
I'll take prison or a bullet to the head before I decide to fight for a nation that has pulled the rug out from underneath me.
I hope more young people see it this way, maybe we'll actually get to a point where we can watch all these leaders duke it out in person because no one will fight for them
Gen Xer here (born in '67). I would encourage young people to NOT join the military at this point in the timeline. It's not about serving your country any more, it's about a bunch of greedy fucks using you to further their fucked up, anti-working class, anti-humanity agenda.
In my 30s, feel the same way. Why would I offer myself to the meat grinder for a nation that bitches about me all the time?
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